If you've looked at some of the NASA photos from Mars you realize it looks like there are structures on the surface that shouldn't be there. i.e. pyramids, glass tubes, and of course 'the face'... I'm not saying these structures were created by a past civilization...but I'm speculating these anomalous formations may have been created in order to deceive. By whom...I have no idea.

The pyramids are news to me. I'll take it as an urban legend until I see a NASA photo. The infamous "Face on Mars" that some say looks like Elvis and is therefore proof of an earlier civilisation has been debunked. A Digital Elevation Model shows it to be a mesa. It's just a hill with some features that cast shadows that make the face when the Sun hits it just right. Nothing unusual. We have faces in cliffsides on Earth. One became a symbol of the state of New Hampshire, but the Old Man didn't look like Elvis or Jesus, so he only got the summer tourists who were in the area anyway.

"If you've looked at some of the NASA photos from Mars you realize it looks like there are structures on the surface that shouldn't be there. i.e. pyramids, glass tubes, and of course 'the face'... I'm not saying these structures were created by a past civilization...but I'm speculating these anomalous formations may have been created in order to deceive. By whom...I have no idea."

PROTIP: The TV miniseries "The Martian Chronicles"* and the film "Total Recall" are not documentaries.

So here we have the infamous "Mars Face", shot by the Viking orbiter in 1976:

And here is the same surface feature, shot by the Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 (from a different angle, and with a much higher resolution):

This whole thing is nothing but an ordinary table mountain. Standard geological feature.

But two years later (the RR post is from 12/1/2003) people still claim that there is a "face" on Mars... some people obviously refuse to learn, and rather want to "believe".

The whole episode is a wonderful example of "Pareidolia". The "Mars Face" is nothing but the same phenomenon as any "Virgin Marys" on a piece of toast. When somebody is deceiving here, then it's YOU, Mr. "Illusion", who is deceiving himself.